The crucial decision from the ECB follows with the ICC's policy which was implemented last year to ban trans women, who have gone through a male puberty from playing in professional cricket. The transgender women will be excluded from Tiers 1 and 2 of the ECB's new women's county competition, as well as The Hundred. The International Cricket Council (ICC) also gave a green signal to ECB's ruling, asserting that the instances will be assessed properly. ECB bans transgender women from competing in professional cricket In its statement, ECB stated that the transgender issue was a 'complex area' and it has been 'impossible to balance all considerations.' "Having considered wide-ranging views gathered during the consultation, as well as in consultations conducted during 2023, and the relevant science and medical evidence, the ECB has decided that from 2025 it will adopt the same approach as the ICC for women's professional domestic cricket. This provides consistency, given that a primary purpose of the top end of the domestic structure is to produce international players," ECB in its statement said.